??Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Playing the Victim
Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Playing the Victim
Seeing the substantial gains in value, Wang Zijia couldn’t help but wear a look of delight on his face.
This demonstrated just how many sins the Huang family had committed over the last several decades. Beneath the swamp-like mire lay a bed composed entirely of the bones of countless infants.
He glanced around and jumped back up through the skylight-like entrance.
After a mont’s hesitation, he tossed down two more fireballs.
“Boom…”
A massive explosion blasted a huge crater in the ground, showering the area with foul mud. An extrely pungent sll instantly spread throughout the entire valley.
Wang Zijia, who had retreated a great distance, was instantly overwheld, his nose numbed by the stench.
“Ugh… this shit…”
Wang Zijia imdiately jumped onto his Paper Kite and surveyed the valley from the air, where an even stronger sll hit him head-on.
‘This place is probably ruined now. At least ten to eight years of careful maintenance will be needed before people can live here again.’
‘Well, this should be alright.’
After a mont of thought, Wang Zijia felt that it was still not safe. Finally, he gritted his teeth and rushed back into the foul-slling valley.
When he erged from the mouth of the valley, he was completely covered in the foul stench, his hair disheveled, and his body splotched with putrid mud. He looked like a man completely soaked in gri.
With an extrely haggard appearance, he made a swift exit from the valley. The Huang family mbers waiting outside imdiately knelt and bowed as soon as they saw him.
“Greetings, Exalted Immortal!”
“Thank you, Exalted Immortal!”
“…”
Wang Zijia ignored them, took out his Identity Order Symbol, and activated the Task Ergency Contact Alarm.
As Wang Zijia acted, the Identity Order Symbol in his hand began to flash with spiritual light, like an ergency beacon.
Having done all this, Wang Zijia waited, not bothering to clean himself up and maintaining his pitiful appearance.
Anyway, his sense of sll had been numbed by the stench, so he couldn’t tell whether it was foul or not.
“Whoosh… whoosh…”
Wang waited for about two quarters of an hour before three beams of Escape Light pierced the pre-dawn darkness and rocketed in from the horizon.
In an instant, they were in front of Wang Zijia.
“What happened… er… what’s that sll!”
“Senior Brother… I’m so glad you guys are here. If you’d been any later, you wouldn’t have been able to see …”
Upon seeing the arrivals, Wang Zijia, who had been simring with emotion for so ti, imdiately let loose. He began to sob, sniveling and tearing up, and made to throw himself at the legs of the leading child.
Being only sixteen years old himself and possessing a chubby, childlike face, he perford his crying spell to the hilt. Coupled with Wang Zijia’s current pitiful state, he looked utterly pitiful.
The leader, without leaving a trace, took a step back to avoid Wang Zijia’s move of sobbing and clinging to his legs. He then subconsciously glared at Shou Xingye, who had previously transferred the task to Wang Zijia.
“That is…” Shou Xingye was also sowhat stunned for a mont. He subconsciously wanted to step forward to comfort Wang Zijia, but froze mid-gesture. With a fluctuation of mana, he lifted Wang Zijia into the air and said:
“Junior Brother Wang, stop crying for a mont and tell
why you activated the ergency plan. Also, what happened to the decent Huang Family Valley….”
As he was lifted into the air by Shou Xingye, Wang Zijia instinctively wiped his tears, accidentally saring mud all over his face, making him look more pitiable.
The three mbers of the Law Enforcent Team couldn’t help but twitch their mouths at the sight of this. Shou Xingye’s face was a picture of awkwardness, his lips moving several tis, but he didn’t know what to say.
“After I took over the task from Senior Brother, I imdiately activated the protection array of the Huang family’s ancestral hall, and I haven’t taken a single step away. I even had them deliver my als to the door…”
So saying, Wang Zijia narrated the course of events, slightly modified, his nose running and his eyes tearing all the while. He only omitted the part where he “collected cards,” nurtured the demonic being, and drew upon the pollution, and added so details about the difficult battle.
“You’re saying not so random demonic being but the Huang family mbers themselves were nurturing a ghost and causing havoc? And it was all happening right here in this valley?”
“Mhm!”
Wang Zijia, his face sared with mud, nodded his head in grievance.
The three Law Enforcent Team senior brothers looked at each other, wordless. Selecting a purification point at soone’s doorstep was indeed sowhat… Even though they could shift the bla, they found the situation extrely awkward.
“Well… Junior Brother Wang, you go get cleaned up first. Leave the rest to us.” It was only after a mont of silence that Shou Xingye spoke up.
Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia finally left, looking aggrieved.
“Look what you’ve done. If the Zhang and Lin families find out about this, there might be another ripple of ‘discontent’ in the guild.” The leader glared at Shou Xingye and said:
“And also the Xiang family. I heard this one is their favored future son-in-law, a rare kind-hearted individual. Look at what you’ve made him look like.”
“Captain, I didn’t pick this location!” Shou Xingye responded, looking aggrieved.
“And now you’re talking back!” The captain glared at Shou Xingye and said angrily, “Get to the valley and check if there are any other fish that slipped through the net and see if the ends have not been tied up properly.”
“By the way, when the captain arrives later, get a Peace Talisman for the kid. We can’t let him be contaminated by this Sinister Qi and ruin his foundation. Otherwise, if it stirs up the Three Sects, we’re in for a headache.”
“Okay!” Shou Xingye replied. He and his Law Enforcent Team partner entered the foul-slling valley to begin the inspection.
…
At noon the next day, when the Law Enforcent Team finally confird that there were no omissions, the valley was already surrounded by people from the Zhang and Lin families.
As for Wang Zijia, he was personally escorted back to the sect by Shou Xingye.
When the two arrived at the outskirts of Wanyu Immortal City and officially entered the sect’s territory, Shou Xingye landed on a hill and said to Wang Zijia, “I won’t accompany you anymore, Junior Brother. You can go back to the guild by yourself. I still have tasks to attend to.”
“Alright, Senior Brother Shou!” Wang Zijia replied sincerely.
Shou Xingye looked at Wang Zijia, hesitated, and then said, “Although the incident was sowhat accidental, it was indeed due to our oversight. Don’t take it to heart, Junior Brother.”
“I understand. It was an accident, and the senior brothers of the Law Enforcent Team can’t be blad. It’s just my bad luck.” Wang Zijia, now clean and back to his innocent chubby self, sincerely replied with an innocent look on his young face.
Shou Xingye heaved a sigh of relief at his words. If this matter were to stir up trouble with the Xiang family, even if they could shift the bla, they would definitely face bla.
This was because they not only failed to completely eradicate the devil but also set up the purification point right at the front door of the family’s house, which was quite a blow.
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